Gillian Branstetter
@GBBranstetter
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opinions are my own // comms aclu
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@GBBranstetter Lefitsts did not campaign on identity politics. centrists use identity politics to attack the left. hillary did this to great effect in 2016. it was when republicans were able to weaponize it on centrists that centrists then suddenly said it was a leftist tactic.
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Mamdani presents such a riddle to centrist Dems because they've spent so much time accusing the left of focusing too much on like trans rights or DEI and not enough on the economy but now that a socialist beat one of their own on affordability they have to say "no not like that".
Democratic congressman @Tom_Suozzi slams Zohran Mamdani as "a bad example" who made "lofty, utopian promises: free public transit, free college tuition, more public housing"
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Literally pair Noah Wylie with Jasmine Crockett and send them on a tour of man-on-the-street interviews in waiting rooms across the country its not that hard.
i need Hakeem Jeffries livestreaming.i need congresspeople at hospitals.i need governors on every local tv station.i need Barack decrying the gutting of Obamacare on every major podcast. for gods sake, i need some leadership from @TheDemocrats. its all free stuff. just do it.
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Gender dysphoria.
What's it called when you're delusional but self aware.
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RT @yFactr: Baltimore's progressive mayor Brandon Scott took a public health approach to violence prevention, and the city is on track to h….
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No mention of the economy or inflation as they slash funds for health care and food to pay off a tax break for billionaires, while the voters who cared most about the below issues (sans immigration) voted overwhelmingly Democratic. High on their own supply.
The main domestic issues that animated the campaign were taking back America’s culture and sanity (understanding almost everything else is downstream). Banishing DEI and leftwing race bigotry. Stopping trans and gender madness. Halting hostile migration. Implementing mass.
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Protect the homeland
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a little help for the wonderful cis allies out there, trans women are biologically women and trans men are biologically men.
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Appalled to learn that AOC was once a child.
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Vehemently opposing both of these men is actually the right answer.
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About to spend a weekend in NYC and the MTA is such a downgrade.
This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like
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Both/and. Dispossessing their own voters is how people like Vance manufacture consent for mass deportations which they then sell as the cure to that dispossession. One's not a distraction from the other--they both create a feedback loop of racism and resentment.
Worth noting that Vance is using anti-immigrant sentiment to distract from the real goal here: gutting Medicaid and handing tax breaks to the rich. The Big Billionaire Bill isn’t about border security, it’s about bleeding the safety net dry.
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Everything else—the CBO score, the proper baseline, the minutiae of the Medicaid policy—is immaterial compared to the ICE money and immigration enforcement provisions.
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I think a lot of trend pieces just haven't adjusted for scale on TikTok. "Oh a video has 2 million views? Must be everywhere".
I just don’t think that’s true. I straight up do not believe this is a thing that happened.
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Insane that Mamdani is being asked to condemn words he has never said while being accused of not saying words he has repeatedly said in multiple venues over the course of months.
Sometimes the things people don't say are actually what we hear the loudest. At a time when anti-Jewish hate has surged to record levels, it's shocking that any candidate would be unwilling to tell Jewish New Yorkers explicitly and unambiguously, "Here is my plan." Or "I’m with
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RT @emotrophywife: I wrote @NewYorker’s Pride essay about the fight for trans healthcare, the Skremetti decision, trans children, the Big B….
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If you stood in a big sanctuary city this afternoon surrounded by a bunch of deodorant-less transvestites exposing their man boobs you need to take a look in the mirror and turn your life around. YOUR BIGGEST PROBLEM IS YOURSELF.
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This was also the working logic behind Build Back Better--make permanent the pandemic relief programs and hopefully reduce the potency of the hatreds Trump was selling. What voters instead experienced was those programs starting under Trump and ending under Biden.
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This is really the bedrock of why Mamdani is not as vulnerable to identity grievances over immigrants, trans people, Muslims, or more. Democrats keep trying to focus group their way out of these issues one-by-one but their vulnerabilities are more existential than that.
The great @IsabellaMWeber in @NewYorker 📢: "Zohranomics" is more than a program for an affordable NYC. It is "anti-fascist economic policy." Go Bella! 🔥.
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